NEW ORLEANS – Widener women's indoor track and field and cross country assistant coach Michael Ambrulavage has been named Women's Assistant Coach of the Year for the Metro Region. This honor was from the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA).

Currently in his sixth season as an assistant coach, he specializes in middle distance and distance runners. A few of the athletes Ambrulavage has coached include, but are not limited to: junior Gabby Nye, senior Carly Gable, and senior Emily Cooney.

Widener competed at the All-Atlantic Region Track and Field Conference (AARTFC) from March 3-4. Cooney and Gable were two of the four athletes who took home first place for the women's distance-medley relay. They placed a time of 12:26.07.

Nye, meanwhile, ranks first in the conference for the mile. She ran 5:06.70 on Feb. 24 at the MAC Indoor Track and Field Championships.

Ambrulavage was a Widener athlete himself from 2012-17. He was a part of cross country, as well as both indoor and outdoor track and field.

He has a bachelor's degree in civil engineering and a master's in business administration.

To read the full USTFCCCA article, click here.